Verizon can suck it
http://vx8300.blogspot.com/
part way down the page it mentions BitPim settings, BitPim allows you to do seem edits on the phone, where you change the firmware on a bit by bit levl. So yes, the phone is infinitly hackable
part way down the page it mentions BitPim settings, BitPim allows you to do seem edits on the phone, where you change the firmware on a bit by bit levl. So yes, the phone is infinitly hackable
Ya wanna come over here and invalidate my warranty?baldy wrote:Invalidating warranties is the most fun you can have with your clothes on
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To those of you in the cell business, do you know if the idea referenced here is accurate? Can you just take any ol' previously purchased phone and sign up for new service off-contract? When Cingular bought out AT&T Wireless (you know, before AT&T bought Cingular) the GF and I were way excited, because we thought we were walking into a golden age or rollover minutes. It turns out our phones were incapable of different accounting procedures and we would have to get new phones (and new contracts) in order to get rollover. So we flipped Cingular the bird and stayed on our old plan.
"Fear of the bee means the honey is for me" - Jhonn Balance
Yes and no.
You can buy a cell phone but not just ANY cell phone and hook it up. In order to do this you need to EDUCATE yourself on how cell phones (and carriers) work.
There are three types of Cell Phones in the US right now.
TDMA
CDMA
GSM
They are not cross compatible. If your phone is a TDMA phone, you cannot buy a CDMA phone and expect it to work. SOME carriers offer two types of service but most just offer one. Once you know what kind of service your carrier provides you can buy accordingly. Example, you can by the Motorola RAZR in CDMA and GSM, they look the same on the outside but inside they are built to different specifications and frequencies. If you buy a GSM phone on ebay and take it to your CDMA carrier you just lost money and look like a dumbass.
Lastly, a cell phone has NOTHING to do with your contract, services, or rate plans (and thus rollover minutes) with the exception of some features like Text Messaging (called SMS) Picture Messaging (MMS) Web Browsing (WAP or BREW) etc. If your phone can't use BREW don't pay for a BREW service subscription.
So when you and your gf wanted to switch phones or something when Cingulair bought AT&T Wireless and they told you the "phones were incapable of different accounting procedures" that was a load of shit.
You can buy a cell phone but not just ANY cell phone and hook it up. In order to do this you need to EDUCATE yourself on how cell phones (and carriers) work.
There are three types of Cell Phones in the US right now.
TDMA
CDMA
GSM
They are not cross compatible. If your phone is a TDMA phone, you cannot buy a CDMA phone and expect it to work. SOME carriers offer two types of service but most just offer one. Once you know what kind of service your carrier provides you can buy accordingly. Example, you can by the Motorola RAZR in CDMA and GSM, they look the same on the outside but inside they are built to different specifications and frequencies. If you buy a GSM phone on ebay and take it to your CDMA carrier you just lost money and look like a dumbass.
Lastly, a cell phone has NOTHING to do with your contract, services, or rate plans (and thus rollover minutes) with the exception of some features like Text Messaging (called SMS) Picture Messaging (MMS) Web Browsing (WAP or BREW) etc. If your phone can't use BREW don't pay for a BREW service subscription.
So when you and your gf wanted to switch phones or something when Cingulair bought AT&T Wireless and they told you the "phones were incapable of different accounting procedures" that was a load of shit.
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This sounds like the phones were "locked" on AT&T and they needed Cingular phones to be able to use the Cingular rate plans. After the merger they kept the two systems separate and forced everybody to buy new phones that were "locked" on Cingular. There where some of us that just unlocked our phones and put Cingular SIMs in and moved to the Cingular system. (of course it helped that my wife worked for Cingular/AT&T at the time)So when you and your gf wanted to switch phones or something when Cingulair bought AT&T Wireless and they told you the "phones were incapable of different accounting procedures" that was a load of shit.
